She fell asleep on a stranger's shoulder during the saddest play in the city. Neither of them said a word about it until the rain outside made it impossible to walk away.
Isla didn't mean to fall asleep on Elian. She definitely didn't mean to fall in love with him-not with her mother's cancer three years behind her and a hard-won, carefully guarded life she wasn't sure she wanted to risk. Elian didn't mean to let a stranger stay either-not with his own mother two years gone, and a quiet, private conviction that loving anyone again was simply a losing bet.
But grief, it turns out, is just love with nowhere left to go. And theirs finds somewhere.
What begins as an accident in a dark theater becomes a marriage, a daughter, a father who comes back after fifteen years of silence, a sister found in a box of old letters, and a family built-imperfectly, honestly, one hard conversation at a time-out of people who all, in their own ways, once learned what it cost to be left. When an old mistake resurfaces to threaten everything Elian built in his mother's memory, and when the family's hardest-won reconciliation is tested by a diagnosis no one saw coming, they'll have to prove that the thing they spent a decade learning-how to stay, especially when staying is terrifying-was ever really learned at all.
A sweeping, multigenerational love story about grief, honesty, and the families we choose to build twice: once by accident, and once, every day after, on purpose.
For readers who loved the emotional architecture of Me Before You,This Is Us, and One Day. A novel that asks not just how two people fall in love, but how they keep choosing each other through every version of fear that follows
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. She fell asleep on a stranger's shoulder during the saddest play in the city. Neither of them said a word about it until the rain outside made it impossible to walk away.Isla didn't mean to fall asleep on Elian. She definitely didn't mean to fall in love with him-not with her mother's cancer three years behind her and a hard-won, carefully guarded life she wasn't sure she wanted to risk. Elian didn't mean to let a stranger stay either-not with his own mother two years gone, and a quiet, private conviction that loving anyone again was simply a losing bet.But grief, it turns out, is just love with nowhere left to go. And theirs finds somewhere.What begins as an accident in a dark theater becomes a marriage, a daughter, a father who comes back after fifteen years of silence, a sister found in a box of old letters, and a family built-imperfectly, honestly, one hard conversation at a time-out of people who all, in their own ways, once learned what it cost to be left. When an old mistake resurfaces to threaten everything Elian built in his mother's memory, and when the family's hardest-won reconciliation is tested by a diagnosis no one saw coming, they'll have to prove that the thing they spent a decade learning-how to stay, especially when staying is terrifying-was ever really learned at all.A sweeping, multigenerational love story about grief, honesty, and the families we choose to build twice: once by accident, and once, every day after, on purpose.For readers who loved the emotional architecture of Me Before You, This Is Us, and One Day. A novel that asks not just how two people fall in love, but how they keep choosing each other through every version of fear that follows This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9789334466201
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. She fell asleep on a stranger's shoulder during the saddest play in the city. Neither of them said a word about it until the rain outside made it impossible to walk away.Isla didn't mean to fall asleep on Elian. She definitely didn't mean to fall in love with him-not with her mother's cancer three years behind her and a hard-won, carefully guarded life she wasn't sure she wanted to risk. Elian didn't mean to let a stranger stay either-not with his own mother two years gone, and a quiet, private conviction that loving anyone again was simply a losing bet.But grief, it turns out, is just love with nowhere left to go. And theirs finds somewhere.What begins as an accident in a dark theater becomes a marriage, a daughter, a father who comes back after fifteen years of silence, a sister found in a box of old letters, and a family built-imperfectly, honestly, one hard conversation at a time-out of people who all, in their own ways, once learned what it cost to be left. When an old mistake resurfaces to threaten everything Elian built in his mother's memory, and when the family's hardest-won reconciliation is tested by a diagnosis no one saw coming, they'll have to prove that the thing they spent a decade learning-how to stay, especially when staying is terrifying-was ever really learned at all.A sweeping, multigenerational love story about grief, honesty, and the families we choose to build twice: once by accident, and once, every day after, on purpose.For readers who loved the emotional architecture of Me Before You, This Is Us, and One Day. A novel that asks not just how two people fall in love, but how they keep choosing each other through every version of fear that follows This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9789334466201
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